Research concludes the Maidan Square snipers were anti-government militants.

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37. It does not 'refute' what I believe; it 'proves' what the author chooses to believe.

'Studies' that confirm pre-existing biases do not 'prove' that the bias is true. That is as true of this study as it is of those the right uses to refute global warming and to support tax cuts for the rich.

What makes this study "unimpeachable" in your view? Because it confirms what you (and the authorities in Moscow) 'know' to be true?

The Berkut was hardly a blameless security force.

The main stated purpose (in Ukraine) of the national special force was crowd control; however, the Berkut have also been accused of taking part in racketeering, and of terrorizing, attacking, and torturing Ukrainian citizens, including in recent years voters who would elect non-Yanukovych candidates to local governments and had a well-documented history of kidnapping, attack, and torture of protesters including during Euromaidan and to a lesser extent the Orange Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkut_%28special_police_force%29